"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time"
~Andre Gide
I sit here at McDonalds, our weekly play date for our sons (3 and 5), thinking that I have no idea where life will take us over the next 4 to 5 months. We spent the past year working on a business that didn't work out. Spent every cent we had in that and are now left with nearly nothing. We still have our house, our van (barely), our stuff, and most importantly, each other.
I'll digress for just a moment for some back story. I spent the last 10 years as an electrical engineer working mostly on accounting and budgets. I hated it, no, I detested it with a passion. I felt myself stuck in the rut of corporate America and bound by the chains of my own careless spending right out of college. I had also been a track coach, pole vault in particular, for those same 10 years. THIS, was my passion. I loved helping kids to achieve things that ordinary people choose not to achieve.
Now here I am, twice choosing the risky road over the "play it safe for now" road. Twice choosing to run down a dream I've been chasing for many years.
This blog is a way for me to provide an outlet for my struggles, my dreams, and my story....our story. As a man, a father, a husband, an uncle, a coach, an entrepreneur, and a dreamer, I hope to provide something that each of you can take and apply to your own life in some way. Rarely does there come a point in ones life where they have that ability to run down their dream. I do, right now.
